Quick Transmigration: Refusing to Be a Victim's Child

"what--"

A sharp scream suddenly erupted from inside the women's prison.

Aunt Zhang and the others, who had been gathered around the fence, covered their mouths in fright and retreated repeatedly.

Wang Minyue was clearly not expected this to happen, and her face showed a look of astonishment.

She hasn't even made a move yet!

Could this be—

"Could this pastry be poisoned?"

A woman who witnessed the whole thing spoke for everyone.

Before Wang Minyue could refute, the children who had been given pastries had their food knocked away by their mothers, who then hugged their crying children and moved far away from Wang Minyue.

His eyes were wary and defensive.

"No, don't misunderstand, there was nothing in the pastry. Look, my two kids ate it, and nothing happened to them."

Wang Minyue pulled over the two boys beside her, pointed to their cheeks stuffed full of pastries, and eagerly tried to prove her innocence.

She might have wanted to tamper with the pastries, but she wouldn't be foolish enough to resort to such a blatant method as poisoning.

These people are already her property; how could she possibly do something as foolish as draining the pond to catch all the fish?!

"Perhaps this rat ate something poisoned elsewhere and just happened to die from the poison?"

Wang Minyue tried her best to explain, and even bent down to pick up the pastries that everyone had thrown away, intending to taste them and show them.

Unfortunately, before her fingertips could even touch anything, another rat darted out of the darkness, grabbed the food on the ground, rushed over, and swallowed it whole.

"what--"

Wang Minyue was closest to it and almost had the stinky rat stick to her face. She was so scared that she fell backward and landed on her bottom, her tailbone hurting from the impact.

She was in pain when she was surprised to see the other women in her cell screaming and hiding in a corner, their eyes filled with fear and disgust as they looked at her.

Even Xu, who had been calm all along, was so frightened that she dropped what she was holding, grabbed her daughter's hand, and backed away.

Wang Minyue was completely bewildered by their stares, but following their gaze, she saw yet another rat spitting blood and dying on the ground with its belly swollen.

The few pieces of pastry that were originally scattered nearby have now completely disappeared.

With repeated accidents, no matter how Wang Minyue tries to deny it, nobody believes her anymore.

"There must be some misunderstanding here. I have no grudge against you all, why would I hurt you for no reason?"

"Besides, my two children and I also ate the pastries. If they were really poisoned, all three of us would have been in trouble long ago. Even a fool wouldn't use such a crude method."

For the first time, Wang Minyue experienced the feeling of being unable to speak out, and what it meant to suffer in silence.

Her fingernails, hidden in her sleeve, almost dug into her palms. Her gaze urgently swept over the Xu couple, and she said:

“Mother, Fifth Sister, you both ate these pastries too, and you're both fine. Please explain this to everyone.”

Seeing her pitiful appearance, Shao Yingxue wavered and was about to speak when Xu Shi secretly pinched her arm, and she immediately lowered her head and shut her mouth.

Xu pulled her daughter behind her, and seeing that her eldest daughter-in-law had become everyone's enemy, she glared at her and began to scold her:

"What's there to explain? Who can say for sure about these things? If you're really afraid of people suspecting you, then don't pretend to be a good person and distribute things everywhere in the first place."

Xu had warned her from the beginning not to make a fuss, since no one knew how long they would be locked up, and she should keep those pastries hidden.

Bah, you deserve it!

That wretched brat needs to be taught a lesson, so he won't dare disobey his mother-in-law.

Aunt Chen watched coldly for a while, seeing that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in the opposite cell were fighting like antagonists, before slowly speaking:

"The Crown Prince's wife is right."

"Perhaps these two mice were unlucky and couldn't handle these pastries, which is why they suffered this fate. You are blessed with great fortune, so naturally everything goes smoothly for you. We humans are cheap and can't afford to gamble on whether we'll be poisoned by a single pastry."

We appreciate your kindness, but please don't give us anything good in the future.

These words, though seemingly praising, were actually criticizing, and they resonated deeply with everyone in the prison.

Luck is something you can't see or touch, so who can say for sure?

The wife of the Marquis of Le'an was incredibly lucky, while the female jailers were just as unlucky as if they were facing bad luck.

Upon being reminded, the group felt a sudden chill, which frightened them so much that they felt cold all over.

In an instant, all the female relatives in the prison began to feel fear, and no matter how much Wang Minyue tried to please and explain, it was to no avail.

This caused all her plans to fall through.

*

A certain magical artifact, which had been keeping its merits hidden, saw that the transmigrated woman could no longer use evil magic to harm people, so it disguised itself as a rat and sneaked back from the women's prison to the men's prison.

"Squeak!"

A mouse, no bigger than two fingers, scurried in through a small window and immediately saw its host fussing over Marquis Le'an.

One moment he was changing the old man's dressings, the next he was concerned that the man was cold. Relying on his brute strength, he stripped off the outer garments of several of his brothers, and together with the old man, they took turns wearing the clothes and slept soundly on the haystack.

When others criticize him, he accuses them of deliberately picking a fight.

"Father is injured. If I don't take good care of him, wouldn't I be unworthy of being a son? You're just wearing one less outer garment. If you can't even handle that, how can I expect you to be filial to our father in the future?"

"Then what right do you have to wear our clothes?"

“If I don’t take good care of myself, what if I get sick and infect Dad? Do you think I want to wear these tattered clothes? I just want to take better care of Dad.”

No matter what they said, Shao Linshen kept bringing up the Marquis of Le'an.

His other brothers were so angry they wanted to tear him apart alive.

If looks could kill, Shao Linshen would probably be a pile of minced meat by now.

But the fourth son and the others were all terrified of being beaten, and now they dared not speak out against it, only hoping that their two elder brothers would take the lead in condemning this bastard's behavior.

Unfortunately, their heir remained calm and ignored everyone. When he saw the third son grabbing clothes, he even offered his outer garment to his father to keep him warm, earning a look of satisfaction from the Marquis of Le'an.

This action made it seem as if the others were particularly unfilial.

Shao Lao Er was also furious. He couldn't stand the third brother climbing over him. If it weren't for his eldest brother keeping him in check, he would have definitely fought with that bastard.

As the group was still fuming, one of the sharp-eyed men spotted a rat scurrying in through the window and running off towards Shaolin Shen at lightning speed.

Their eyes lit up immediately, and they wished the rat would bite the third brother a few times.

Unexpectedly, the other party seemed to sense something, bent one leg and stepped on the rat, and then nimbly twisted a few straws into a rope, tied the rat under his foot to a pillar.

He even smiled "kindly" at them and said:

"I happen to be a little hungry, brothers, want to try some fresh rat meat?"